Nehemiah 4:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

Nehemiah 4:21 —

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Cross-References

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Galatians 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Colossians 1:29
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-23)

When the builders had so far reason to think the design of the enemies broken as to return to their work, yet they were not so secure as to lay down their arms, knowing how restless and unwearied they were in their attempts, and that, if one design failed, they would be hatching another. Thus must we watch always against our spiritual enemies, and not expect that our warfare will be accomplished t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

7-21. But ... when Sanballat ... heard that the walls ... were made up, and ... the breaches ... stopped--The rapid progress of the fortifications, despite all their predictions to the contrary, goaded the Samaritans to frenzy. So they, dreading danger from the growing greatness of the Jews, formed a conspiracy to surprise them, demolish their works, and disperse or intimidate the builders. The pl…